The Supreme Court approved a new form of caption on November 18, 1999. Rule 10 has been approved and the new caption was made mandatory on January 1, 2001 for all pleadings submitted to Colorado State Courts.

The forms on this web site include the new caption. However, the caption is limited to the space provided within the "party box" and "attorney box".

A flexible caption has been created for those documents where it is necessary to have flexibility in the caption to include all required information (i.e.: a civil filing with fifty Plaintiffs versus fifty Defendants), or for those parties needing to prepare their own documents when forms are not available.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLEXIBLE CAPTION

(Please follow these instructions in order)

TRANSFERRING THE FLEXIBLE CAPTION TO YOUR DOCUMENT

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These instructions are primarily for Word documents as that is the word processor used by the Colorado Judicial Department. However, the steps should be similar in WordPerfect, but the file menu names may be slightly different.

Under the File menu, select "save as" and name Flexible Caption. (This saves your flexible caption as a template document *dot in Word)).
Hint: Remember what folder the "Flexible Caption" is located, as you will need it later.

Close or minimize Internet page.

Open a new document and name it (optional… you can name it later as well).

Set margins in new document as follows: (under File Menu, Page Setup) Hint: Margins should be set before inserting the caption in order for it to transfer correctly.

Top 1.5" Bottom 1" Left 1" Right 1"

To insert the caption to your document. Select Insert Menu, then File, and locate the file name of "Flexible caption." (Select "All File/S" under the "File/S of Type" as this is a template document (Flexible caption.dot) and only Word documents ( *.doc ) will be displayed.)